US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Jan. 20 for "Time-variant, multi-stage control system" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,725, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Time-variant, multi-stage control system" was invented by Anne-Claire Elisabeth Marie Le Henaff (Cambridge, Mass.), Wei He (Cambridge, Mass.), Grace Connors (Cambridge, Mass.), Simone Gelmini (Cambridge, Mass.), Amos G. Winter (Cambridge, Mass.), Jeffrey Dennis Costello (Cambridge, Mass.), Ian Marius Peters (Cambridge, Mass.) and Kameron Conforti (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system includes one or more levels of control of power and energy. At one level, a first controller optimally divides power between tw...